| Thursday, January 24, 2019 Australian History
| | 1788 - | French ships are noted outside Botany Bay just two days before Captain Arthur Phillip takes formal possession of New South Wales. [more] | | 1903 - | The Golden Pipeline, a massive engineering undertaking bringing vital water to the Western Australian goldfields, is opened. [more] | World History
| | 41 - | Gaius Caesar (Caligula), third Roman Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, is assassinated. [more] | | 1965 - | Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister who refused to be demoralised by Germany's Blitz campaign in WWII, dies. [more] | | 1972 - | A Japanese soldier, unaware that World War II ended almost thirty years earlier, is discovered hiding on Guam. [more] | | 1984 - | The Apple Macintosh computer is released. [more] | | |
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